Only 1 patch of 2 made it thru with the last message,
so here's the second one...
--- Duncan Palmer <dunk_palmer at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>> I've been doing a bit of work on mythmusic to allow
> me
> to sync music to a portable device (an ipod in my
> case). I haven't got too far with this yet, but
> have working code that allows me to export all
> tracks
> in the active play queue to an ipod (see attached
> patches against 0.19). I thought it might be a good
> time to see if I can get some comments on my
> approach... if people like it, I'd like to try and
> get
> this functionality included in mythmusic
> eventually...
>> My aim in the long run is to be able to plug in a
> portable device, and:
> * play music from the device without having to
> first
> import it
> * export music to the device
> * carry out limited management of the device (e.g.
> delete music from it)
>> To this end, I've created a MusicStore, which
> implements operations common to all sources of
> music:
> * loading metadata from store
> * exporting metadata to the store
> * changing metadata in the store
> * exporting new tracks to the store
>> The attached patches do the following:
> * MusicStore and the derived class IpodMusicStore
> are
> implemented with enough features to allow music to
> be
> exported to a portable device.
> * A DiskMonitor has been implemented to allow
> connection of removable disks to be detected (I
> had
> to make some changes to the MediaMonitor to make
> this
> work, as that class is biased towards CD
> handling).
> * DatabaseBox has been modified to add an extra
> button
>> to the active play list menu. This allows the
> contents ofthe play list to be exported to a
> portable
> device when connected.
>> The ipod support requires libgpod (I'm using 0.3.2),
> which in turn relies on glib( >2.8), for ipod
> support.
> Does anyone know of other MythTv components that
> rely
> directly or indirectly on glib?
>> Things I'm still working on:
> 1. Deleting tracks from a portable. I'm thinking of
> adding a new item to the tree in DatabaseBox.
> This
> will allow music from a portable to be selected
> for
>> playback or deletion.
> 2. Playing tracks from a portable. I think the best
> bet
> here is to treat portables in a similar fashion
> to
> CD's as follows:
> * All metadata has a store handle
> * Operations specific to a store (e.g. removing
>> all CD tracks from AllMusic) specify the
> store
> handle.
> 3. Working with non-ipod portables. Should be fairly
>> straighforward...
> 4. Ultimately, portables are very similar to CD's
> and
> so I should be able to write a CDMusicStore to
> handle CD's.
>> There are other small things to be done, such as
> storing the portable mount point in the database,
> allowing the user to configure it, and providing
> proper progress reporting when exporting tracks to a
> portable...
>> Comments or other help would be much appreciated.
>> Cheers,
> Dunk
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